Dear all,I'd like to explore more about indexing strategies and would appreciatea reference to some good resources this regard including book names.Best regards
I have been somewhat dismayed by the lack of information available relative to testing SSIS solutions. At a time when both managed code and db code are getting tooling (through VSTS) to help drive an automated testing mentality into developers everywhere - there seems to be little out there for those using SSIS. I have seen people talk about having SSIS packages that test the actual packages - there is always the manual way to write the tests in something like C# and then programmatically invoke the package and manually validate the results. Anyone out there have approaches that are working for them?
Im about to start a project that will be hosted by a third party web host. What is a common way to backup your database and have the backup saved ? The data may end up being several 100 MB of user settings, text etc (blog type stuff). If the DB gets to be several 100MB, then does making a backup and ftping it offsite sound reasonable ? Does ftp bandwidth usually count against your overall bandwidth usage ?
I'm trying to flesh out a good queue table design with our dev team.So here is a general overview of the scenario. First an application will hit a WebAPI and grab any updates to Content and store those ID's in SQL (queue table). Next is the fun part, different multi threaded apps will process ID's from the queue. One app will make updates to the data in a different SQL DB while the other will update an index (likely Elastic).
Obviously, we don't want multiple threads working on the same items. One strategy could be to use UPDLOCK & READPAST query hints. However, I'm not sure about the reliability or performance of this solution. I just started looking into setting up a service broker but that would be completely unfamiliar territory for me. Also I can see how a broker might work well within the instance but how would that work with the application making updates to Elastic?
I am looking for some published paper regarding database performancetunning performance strategies. This is for academic purpose so itneeds not to be any commerical database specific. It will be evenbetter if the paper has some kind of methods to quantify/measureperformance. Has anyone come across with any interesting paper aboutthis?Thanks,ewong
There is a great book on database refactoring that contains a comprehensive set or recipies on how to revise databases that are supposed to be always online and may have various clients that can't be upgraded at the same time. I guess this is a typical case with large databases and I would be surpised if Amazon stops their servers just to move a column from one table to another. The book describes necessary steps for such changes. Basically it's all about creating intermediate database schemas that would be used during transition period.
For example, if we need to move a column from one table to another:
Version 1. Table A columns: Name, Price Table B columns: Quantity, Date
Let's say we move Price to table B:
Version 2. Table A columns: Name Table B columns: Quantity, Date, Price
The book suggests an intermediate version:
Version 1_2. Table A columns: Name, Price Table B columns: Quantity, Date, Price Additional trigger that will synchronize "Price" columns between A and B.
Version 1_2 can be used by both clients written for version 1 and 2. Software developers don't need to rush their upgrades, transition can last months and include several changes.
This technique requires accuracy in version control management, but looks very good to implement non-interruptible database schema upgrade. I wonder if this is the only option available for data schema upgrade with no downtime. I can't think about anything else - it this how large data warehouses updata their databases?
I have a table with a lot of records. I want to make paging without passing all the data back to a dataset. I know how to select the top n rows but how do I select 10-20 for example.
I have noticed that the server i'm running SQL2k on is starting to page out of the norm. I can see that the regsvc and sqlservr svc are showing high page faults/sec. I have 3 gigs of ram and set the max that sql can use to 2 gigs. It is currently using only 168 MB and still will show high paging at random times. I know I can add more ram but that doesn't seem to be the problem. I have also stopped unnecessary services at the os level.
I've managed to make it query that return a dataset that have 2 views utilising the "Filter" in RS. I treat this as a single record with multiple views.
Now let say if I have a stored precedure that pass 2 parameters one is called state and year and accepting 'ALL' for every possibility of State and Year and construct that into single dataset with 2 views similar like above.
How do I breakdown this in the reporting services so it will have paging?
I have created a stored proc for paging on a datalist which uses a objectDataSource. I have a output param itemCount which should return the total rows. Them I am creating a temp table to fetch the records for each page request. My output param works fine if I comment out all the other select statements. But returns null with them. Any help would be appreciated. CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[CMRC_PRODUCTS_GetListByCategory]( @categoryID int, @pageIndex INT, @numRows INT, @itemCount INT OUTPUT )AS SELECT @itemCount= COUNT(*) FROM CMRC_Products where CMRC_Products.CategoryID=@categoryID Declare @startRowIndex INT; Declare @finishRowIndex INT; set @startRowIndex = ((@pageIndex -1) * @numRows) + 1; set @finishRowIndex = @pageIndex * @numRows DECLARE @tCat TABLE (TID int identity(1,1),ProductID int, CategoryID int, SellerUserName varchar(100), ModelName varchar(100), Medium varchar(50),ProductImage varchar(100),UnitCost money,Description varchar(1500), CategoryName varchar(100), isActive bit,weight money) INSERT INTO @tCat(ProductID, CategoryID,SellerUserName,ModelName,Medium,ProductImage,UnitCost,Description,CategoryName, isActive,weight)SELECT CMRC_Products.ProductID, CMRC_Products.CategoryID, CMRC_Products.SellerUserName, CMRC_Products.ModelName, CMRC_Products.Medium,CMRC_Products.ProductImage, CMRC_Products.UnitCost, CMRC_Products.Description, CMRC_Categories.CategoryName, CMRC_Products.isActive,CMRC_Products.weightFROM CMRC_Products INNER JOIN CMRC_Categories ON CMRC_Products.CategoryID = CMRC_Categories.CategoryIDWHERE (CMRC_Products.CategoryID = @categoryID) AND (CMRC_Products.isActive = 1) SELECT ProductID, CategoryID,SellerUserName,ModelName,Medium,ProductImage,UnitCost,Description,CategoryName, isActive,weightFROM @tCat WHERE TID >= @startRowIndex AND TID <= @finishRowIndexGO
I am using a stored procedure to page some objectsThe procedure looks like this: CREATE PROCEDURE sw20aut.sw20_Kon( @sid_nr INT, @sid_stl INT = 35, @kid int )AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON DECLARE @rader INT, @sid_antal INT, @ubound int, @lbound int SELECT @rader = COUNT(*), @sid_antal = COUNT(*) / @sid_stl FROM sw20aut.sw_kontakter WITH (NOLOCK) WHERE kund_id = @kid AND del = '0' IF @rader % @sid_stl != 0 SET @sid_antal = @sid_antal + 1 IF @sid_nr < 1 SET @sid_nr = 1 IF @sid_nr > @sid_antal SET @sid_nr = @sid_antal SET @ubound = @sid_stl * @sid_nr IF(@sid_antal > 0) SET @lbound = @ubound - (@sid_stl - 1) ELSE SET @lbound = 0 SELECT CurrentPage = @sid_nr, TotalPages = @sid_antal, TotalRows = @rader DECLARE @ename VARCHAR(64), @fname VARCHAR(64), @konid VARCHAR(64) SET ROWCOUNT @lbound SELECT @ename = enamn, @fname = fnamn, @konid = kon_id FROM sw20aut.sw_kontakter WITH (NOLOCK) WHERE kund_id = @kid AND del = '0' ORDER BY enamn, fnamn, kon_id SET ROWCOUNT @sid_stl SELECT kon_id, enamn, fnamn FROM sw20aut.sw_kontakter WITH (NOLOCK) WHERE enamn + fnamn + '~' + CAST(kon_id as VARCHAR(64)) >= @ename + @fname + '~' + @konid AND (kund_id = @kid AND del = '0') ORDER BY enamn, fnamn, kon_id SELECT startid = @konid SET ROWCOUNT 0END The big problem is that i need to display objet with the same name. In my book the best identifier is the PK and therefor i have sorted as above by ordering after LastName, FirstName, ContactId After som thinking ive reached the conclusion that this dont work if the idnumbers isnt of the same length. as long as they are(for example two people named John Smith, one with id = '23' and one with id = '87' it works. If there ids would have been '23' and '1203' it will not work correctly) of the same length it works fine. What im wondering is if anyone have a good solution to this? Only thing i can think of is filling all idnumbers with zeros to equal length. Dont know how and if this will affect performance though. Anyone has a practical solution to this?
Questoin I am using Sql Server 2000. I have a table named Cities which has more than 2600000 records. I have to display the records for a specific city page wise. I don't want to compromise with performance. Can anyone has the idea? Waiting for your fruitful response. Happy Day And Night For All Muhammad Zeeshanuddin Khan
Hello To make pagination I would like to retrieve only the record from x to y ...I couldn't find how to do to in sql , I was thinking so if there is a way to do it with a sqldatasourceI make my request , put it in a sqldatasource and bind it to my datalistis there a way to "filter the sqldatasource ?" to make what I need ? Thx in advance ?
Im in the process of trying to teach myself SqlServer, comming from Oracle. How the heck do I get the equivlent of %ROWNUM pseudo-column in SqlServer? Top just isn't doing it for me. Oracle Example wrote: Select * from foo where foo%ROWNUM > 10 and foo%ROWNUM <20;
I have a paging dilema with an ADO/ASP web based application.
Currently I am using the temp table and inserted index method of paging which works well but the pages that use this paging have a variety of filters on them and a largish subset of data available. This means that every time the page is refreshed the code is creating that temporary table, inserting all the data, selecting the subset and then dropping it.
I was looking for a more efficent way of getting paged data to the client. One of the alternatives I came across was using a server side forward only cursor and the ado getrows() method. This sounds good in princible but I don't know if I am going to get a performance hit by using a server side cursor as opposed to sending the entire recorset to the client and letting it page the results.
Would it be any better to use a stored procedure and pass the full sql statement to it. I can't actually write the sql into the stored procedure becuase it is all totally dynamic.
So I guess I have three options, temp tables, server side cursor and small amounts of data sent to the client or client side cursor and large amounts of data sent to the client.
My application runs this query using a stored proc
SELECT empid1,name1,joindate from emp where empid2=3 union select empid2,name2,joindate from emp where id1=3
Now I want to implement paging for the same using Row_Number so that I can display the results in pages. Can someone please help me write a query for the same. I tried playing with Row_Number but no luck with it.Basically I am not good with SQL and I had programatically implemented paging in asp.net by looping through all records returned by the query.
My web software ususlly responded in .005 - .02 seconds with about a 100 rows of data. When I put simulated data on my database I added about 2 million rows. when I did this -- every page that did not execute the paging query responded lightning fast. But the webpages that executed the paging query took over 5 seconds. I dont understand why this paging query brought my web application to its knees.
Does anyone know of a more efficient way to do paging. I have SQL server 2000. If it may be easier I can upgrade to SQL 2005. PLZ Let me know. Thanks
Hello, I have a datagrid with paging allowed, but when i click on page number 2 or 3, it still displays the records from the first page. How do I solve this?
SQL Server 2000 or 2005 dose not support the LIMIT statement like mySQL. So plz can anyone tell me tht how to do paging in SQL Server?? Without using CLR Integration...
I know this topic has been gone overed a bit but it just seems that no one has a really good answer.
What i need it to be able to be able to pass in which index row i want to go from and to, as weel a a token which corresponds to how it should be sorted.
The problem with the methods that i have seen to do this is that they all use a case statement to handle the sorting like the below;
Code Snippet
;WITH TotalSales AS (
SELECT CASE @OrderBy
WHEN 'UnitPrice' THEN ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY UnitPrice)
WHEN 'OrderQty' THEN ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY OrderQty)
WHEN 'CarrierTrackingNumber' THEN (ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY CarrierTrackingNumber))
END AS RowNumber,
CarrierTrackingNumber,
UnitPrice,
OrderQty
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
WHERE CarrierTrackingNumber LIKE '%F%'
)
SELECT *
FROM TotalSales
WHERE RowNumber between @StartIndex and @StartIndex + 9
At the begging this looks really good but it turns out that this is really slow. In fact it is about twice as slow as using the below dynamic SQL:
Code Snippet
SET @SafeOrderBy = CASE @OrderBy
WHEN 'UnitPrice' THEN 'UnitPrice'
WHEN 'OrderQty' THEN 'OrderQty'
WHEN 'CarrierTrackingNumber' THEN 'CarrierTrackingNumber'
END
SET @temp = N'
SELECT *
FROM (
SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ' + @SafeOrderBy + ') AS RowNumber,
CarrierTrackingNumber,
UnitPrice,
OrderQty
FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
WHERE CarrierTrackingNumber LIKE ''%F%''
) SUB
WHERE SUB.RowNumber between ' + @StartIndexAlt + ' and ' + @StartIndexAlt + ' + 9'
EXEC sp_executesql @temp
Now for a whole heap of reasons I would like to avoid using dynamic SQL to do this but if the alternative means that my queries take twice as long i dont see i have much of a choice.
I am using SqlCeResult and i want to give paging on that and read in help that you can do paging on ResultSet so . I need code example so that i can understand how to implement this in resultSet.
My report is taking long time to display hundered of records.So we want to display 15 records per page and Next page link at the end of report.Please help me how to do this.
I am wondering if anyone has any practical ways of sorting and paging within SQL server 2005. I have seen plenty of different example and there seems to numerous ways of doing it but i was wondering if anyone has a method that they have been using that they know works in enterprise level solutions and will work in the majority of cases as a standard. The method that has stood out thus far is Common table expressions but I am not sure if this is the best or optimal approach and whether it will work in with dynamic sorting. Thanks
Hi, I am attempting to implement a custome paging solution for my web Application, I have a table that has 30,000 records and I need to bw able to page through these using a Gridview. Here is my curent code but it generates an error when I try to compile the Stored Procedure, I get the following errors:<Error messages> These are on the first SELECT Line..Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "dbo.NAME.CODE" could not be bound.Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "dbo.NAME.LAST_NAME" could not be bound.Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "dbo.NAME.FIRST_NAME" could not be bound.Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "dbo.NAME.MIDDLE_NAME" could not be bound.Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "dbo.NAMETYPE.TYPE" could not be bound.Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "dbo.FUNERAL.NUMBER" could not be bound.Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "mort.NAME.CODE" could not be bound.Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "NAME.LAST_NAME" could not be bound.Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "NAME.FIRST_NAME" could not be bound.Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "NAME.MIDDLE_NAME" could not be bound.Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "NAMETYPE.TYPE" could not be bound.Msg 4104, Level 16, State 1, Procedure proc_NAMEGetPaged, Line 17The multi-part identifier "FUNERAL.NUMBER" could not be bound. </Error Messages><Sotred Procedure> CREATE PROCEDURE proc_NAMEGetPaged @startRowIndex int, @maximumRows intASBEGIN -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from -- interfering with SELECT statements. SET NOCOUNT ON; SELECT NAME.CODE, NAME.LAST_NAME, NAME.FIRST_NAME + ' ' + NAME.MIDDLE_NAME AS Name, NAMETYPE.TYPE, FUNERAL.NUMBER FROM (SELECT CODE, LAST_NAME, FIRST_NAME + ' ' + MIDDLE_NAME AS Name, NAMETYPE.TYPE, FUNERAL.NUMBER, ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY LAST_NAME) as RowNum FROM Name n) as NameInfo WHERE RowNum BETWEEN @startRowIndex AND (@startRowIndex + @maximumRows) -1ENDGO </Stored Procedure> Any assistance in resolving this would be greatly appreciated.. Regards..Peter.
Hello, I have a SQL database with about 300 company names and corresponding phone numbers. I would like to show a list of linkbuttons titled A-Z and when pressed, rebind the sqldatasource so that my GridView will only show company names that start with that letter. I know there are some examples on codeproject.com, but they are a bit over my head... besides, I don't mind writing a custom select statement for the OnClick of every linkbutton if that's what I have to do. Problem is I haven't a clue how to write a select statement that will return items who's first letter matches my desired letter? Any idea? Thanks, -Derek